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This report shares an in-depth overview across the trucking, maritime and intermodal markets.

The dockworkers’ union and terminal employers are still sparring over wages and benefits more than a year after contract talks began.

Five years after bringing dry bulk freight futures to the masses, Breakwave makes a splash in tanker investing.

Older ships are being kept in service longer in pursuit of profits, heightening the risk of accidents and spills.

Despite a slow Memorial Day start, summer demand is expected to hike tanker rates in the months ahead.

“Investors have shifted from a growth-at-all-costs mindset to focus on the path to profitability and scalable growth. No startup, not even the rocket ships of logistics technology, will be immune to these trends,” says project44 founder and CEO Jett McCandless.

Not all cargo markets are back to pre-COVID “normal.” Container shipping rates to South America remain elevated.

Large liquefied petroleum gas tankers are riding high on rising U.S. exports and higher Chinese import demand.

Bed Bath & Beyond “failed to manage its own supply chain” and “exacerbated the bottlenecks faced by other shippers,” alleges OOCL.

Zim outperformed competitors on the way up and is falling faster than other carriers on the way down.

Convoy’s co-founder and CEO suggests that FreightTech offerings have paved the way to disrupt fragmentation with a new model of shipping: the hybrid carrier model.

Trans-Pacific spot rates have pared earlier gains and remain at loss-making levels. Demand has yet to rebound.

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FreightTech providers are examining disruptive global shipping modifications that would be detrimental without AI’s support.

Europe faced a potentially disastrous energy shortage after war broke out. LNG shipping played a vital role in limiting the fallout.

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Outsize profits are still flowing to companies like Danaos and Costamare that lease ships to container lines.

The container shipping party is over — that’s old news. Yet headlines continue to focus on comparisons to the peak.

In light of Gordon Lightfoot’s passing, FreightWaves Classics looks at the Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy, as well as whether Lightfoot’s song about the incident is historically accurate

The CEO of shipping line Hapag-Lloyd argues that current freight rates are unsustainable and will correct upward over time.